Short answers, pulled from the story.
Frederick Charles Copleston was born on the 10th of April 1907 at Claremont in the parish of Trull near Taunton in Somerset. He grew up within an Anglican household before converting to Roman Catholicism at age eighteen.
Frederick Copleston received ordination as a Jesuit priest on the 1st of July 1937 at the Jesuit house of studies in Heythrop Oxfordshire. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1930 after leaving St Mary's College Oscott.
A celebrated BBC broadcast aired on the 28th of January 1948 featured Frederick Copleston debating Bertrand Russell on the existence of God. The event achieved significant media popularity and focused heavily on arguments from contingency and religious language.
The original and DoubleDay editions of Frederick Copleston A History of Philosophy appeared across nine volumes between 1946 and 1975. Later publishers added two previously published works after his death to present it as an eleven volume series.
Frederick Copleston died on the 3rd of February 1994 at St Thomas' Hospital in London at age 86. He received the CBE title in 1993 for services to philosophy and was named Fellow of the British Academy in 1970.